Electronic endoscope system

Abstract

An electronic endoscope system is provided with an electronic endoscope, a processor provided with a still image acquisition unit that acquires a part of a moving image imaged by the electronic endoscope as a still image, an association processing unit that associates place information regarding an imaging place of living tissue in a the lumen with the still image, and a recording unit, a monitor, and an input operation device that transmits a capture instruction for acquiring the still image from the moving image to the still image acquisition unit in response to an operation of determining one place out of a plurality of places in the lumen set in advance as a selected place as a trigger, and further transmits information of the selected place to the association processing unit as the place information regarding the imaging place during an imaging period of the moving image.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to an electronic endoscope system that acquires a still image from a moving image of living tissue in an organ.BACKGROUND ART[0002]In a lesion area in living tissue, there are various levels of severities from an inflammation with a thinned mucosal layer of the living tissue that exhibits redness to an ulcer in which the mucosal layer and a lower layer thereof are partially lost. For example, an ulcer part of a lesion of ulcerative colitis (UC) includes white moss and purulent mucus to be white, and an inflammation part causes edema and exhibits redness due to easiness in bleeding. Such lesion area may be imaged to be observed and inspected with an endoscope system.[0003]An endoscope system images a moving image, so that a still image is acquired from the moving image according to an instruction of an operator and recorded to be stored in a memory and the like; however, in a case where it is not clear where in an organ the still ima...

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Benefits of technology

The electronic endoscope system described in this patent can efficiently gather information about the location where a still image is taken without needing a dedicated sensor. This information can then be associated with the still image.

Problems solved by technology

An endoscope system images a moving image, so that a still image is acquired from the moving image according to an instruction of an operator and recorded to be stored in a memory and the like; however, in a case where it is not clear where in an organ the still image is imaged, it is often impossible to specify a place of the lesion in the organ.

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